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Old 11-03-2016, 04:08 AM   #267
Nereidalbel
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
Default Re: Emerging smokepowder weapons in my fantasy

Found a page with a few methods of casting a barrel for you. As it turns out, people were using a technique that makes decent gun barrels in India long before guns became a thing.

The audio quality isn't the best, but, here's a video of one of these techniques being used with modern equipment.

Looks like you'll have plenty of manual labor for the large number of people in need of a job, and you can use multiple techniques to make multiple types of gun.

If rifling is known to some of the gunsmiths the PCs brought in, it may or may not be possible for somebody with sufficient skill to work the grooves into your molds, allowing for at least a few good marksman.

As for what kinds of guns to make? Muskets are simple, rifles if skill checks go well, and a few blunderbusses/shotguns can work for anybody. While the shotguns won't be killing many military men in full plate, they still stop the occasional bandit, wild animal, or anybody else not wearing significant armor. It also doesn't hurt that you don't have to make proper ammo for them, as rocks and broken glass work just fine.
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